This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the Department of Transportation's Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation under the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program (CFDA 20.941) will support the Biddeford Saco Old Orchard Beach Transit Committee in designing and implementing a smart grid system to power a more sustainable public transit network in the greater Portland, Maine metropolitan area. The project aims to enable the transit agency, Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Transit (doing business as Shuttle Bus), to operate electric buses and facilities using renewable energy generation and storage. The expected outcome is a demonstration project that prioritizes the integration of renewable energy to minimize the use of greenhouse gas-emitting energy sources, with the intended beneficiaries being citizens in a historically disadvantaged community in Biddeford. No subawards are planned for this project, which has an award date of August 1, 2023 and an expected completion date of February 1, 2025.
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